It's Official! and other stuff

As of yesterday, our home is currently on the market! Now I just have to keep cleaning up every 5 minutes when the boys get home from school to keep it looking decent.





Also, yesterday I nearly dropped Jared on the ground! We're trying to potty train Kaylee so she had on underwear yesterday. I was looking up stuff on the internet for our mortgage while holding Jared sitting on my lap. Kaylee comes up and tells me she needs new underwear. She doesn't look wet so I try feeling for where she is wet. That was a mistake. She wasn't wet. So with one hand dirty I mistakingly though Jonah was on my lap for some odd reason and was trying to get him to stand up so I could take care of Kaylee. I didn't realize it was Jared until he was nearly falling out of my lap! I had to gently keep him from falling flat on the ground. I felt so bad that I had nearly dropped him because I thought he could walk. Lucky for me he is a pretty solid kid right now and he can hold his head up so I don't think I did any damage to him. He was pretty upset and it took a little bit to calm him down. I can't believe how forgiving babies are, though. A few minutes later he was back to grinning at me after I had hurt him.

Thank You Mr. Clean!

I have been trying to get our house ready for the market so I thought it a good idea to get the crayon and pen marks off the walls. Seriously, why do kids have to draw on the walls?!? I got out the trusty Mr. Clean Magic Eraser and was amazed as usual at it's thoroughness! I have to admit it did tend to take a little paint off the walls with it, but I didn't think it was that noticeable.

I hate to think what the eraser is made out of, though. Lately I have been a little bit health conscious and have been making my own window cleaner and wall cleaner. I also talked Matt into buying natural toothpaste and shampoo and soap because, well, do you know how bad those things are for you? I hadn't realized it before until the dentist told me all my kids had canker sores in their mouths and he thinks a natural toothpaste would help without all the sodium lauryl sulfate. Well, that stuff is in shampoo and body wash, etc and it is caustic. I guess not too badly since the FDA approves it, but I am beginning to believe the FDA aren't the good guys anymore.

Everyone here has a cold, even Jared. It makes packing up the clutter really difficult because I have to stop every 10 minutes or so and hold Jared so he's not screaming all day. He's usually so good so I know something isn't right with him when he cries this easily. I will be happy when he feels better again!

Kansas Here We Come!

So here's the story on our transfer to Kansas...and before some of you shoot me for not telling you in person I will see you tonight at the Primary Party so you can yell at me there... :)

The company wants him to start in October and have laid to rest any relocation fears that Matt and I have been worrying about.

Oh, for those of you who don't know, Matt is being promoted in the company he works for-Oldcastle. You can check out myoldcastle.com to see what they sell and where you can buy their stuff. Matt works in the Safety area.

We will be moving to the Kansas City area and I'm thinking that Overland Park looks like a pretty neat place to live. However, I am afraid that after living in our little town of 2,000 people (even my neighbor whose older son I teach piano to was in storytime with Kaylee...it is a small town!) that we will be a bit overwhelmed with a town around 100,000! We don't have a chain store closer than 25 minutes away so this will be interesting.

(Kelli, please don't release me yet..I like primary!) Oh, speaking on that, the kids and I will be here until our house sells, so even if Matt leaves in a few weeks I will be here..alone..with 4 kids and a dog...trying to keep the house clean in case someone wants to view it....I can just picture how much fun I will have especially as all the holidays start coming...

Goodbye Cookie

We finally returned our terrier dog Cookie to the place we adopted him from. It was just not working out. He would bark all the time unless he was loose in the house. And if he was loose in the house how he wanted to be he'd run around and find toys and chew them up. When we thought he was resting behind the sofa he was really eating a hole in our carpet that we will need to get replaced. When he was outside he'd bark at anything and everything all day to the point our neighbors called us to tell them he was too loud! He barked at 4 in the morning if he didn't want to sleep anymore and wanted to play. All in all, he was a high maintenance dog and at this stage in our lives we couldn't give him the attention he needed. He was so hyper the kids were getting tired of playing with him so they decided they'd quit playing with him all together, which didn't help him out either. And finally, Cookie likes to chew anything...including our Golden Retriever's legs! I'm serious...our other dog spent probably a month limping around due to the gnawing on her legs. So we just had to give our little dog back. He was so cute and sweet sometimes that it was really hard. You can see from the pictures he's a really cute dog!




Cookie when we first brought him home in March.




Kaylee really loved Cookie. We took him to a t-ball game and he was great! All the little t-ball
players petted him. He craved attention!



A shot of our two dogs when they were not fighting with each other. Occasionally they got along great!

Goodbye Cookie..Matt and I will miss you even though you were such a handful! I hope you get adopted to a nice family and have plenty of room to run around!

Summer Fun

This summer I did not blog at all so here is a catch up of things we did. We didn't do as much as what I would have liked to do with Jared being born and everything, but we did manage to squeeze in a few things.




Here are the boys after a t-ball game. Kaylee really wanted to play as well!



This was in Indiana for the 4th of July at Grandma's house.



Kaylee got buried by her Uncles at Lake Michigan.





This is a picture of my Mom and my brother Travis with James and Jared. They came to visit this summer.




Isn't he a cute baby? He is so HAPPY it is unbelievable! He's not even 3 months yet and he has such a grin!





Jared in his church clothes...




This is a picture of my family at a park in Morris.




My Dad got a good picture of Kaylee.



Here's a picture of me and Jared. I look kinda tired!

This was taken at Six Flags when we went there in August. James and Jonah love Scooby Doo!

Another picture at Six Flags

This is kind of funny. I put nice, clean water into the swimming pool and next thing I know it is all dirty! I ask Jonah and Kaylee what they were doing and the happily exclaim they are making Chocolate Milk!!! Then they proceed to show me how they dig up dirt in the backyard and swish it around the pool...at least they were having fun (and they had a fun time when they each took a bath as well!)

This was from one of our trips to a city pool.